Los Angeles has a strong passion for milk tea studded with chewy pearls of boba. Anyone who bummed around the colorful teen-friendly shops that started popping up in the San Gabriel Valley in the late ’90s—a trend imported stateside from Taiwan—could attest to that. But in an age when dime-a-dozen tapioca ball slingers have appeared everywhere from Westside shopping plazas to Chinese takeout spots in the South Bay, how does one tea parlor stand out from the rest?